Talos™ II — the world's first computing system to support the new PCIe 4.0 standard — also boasts substantial DDR4 memory, dual POWER9 CPUs, next-generation security, and a price that won't break the bank. Let the power of Talos™ II accelerate your computing!

PCI Express 4.0

PCIe 4.0 is here. Double your interconnect performance from 8GT/s to 16GT/s. Lower your power use. Enable development of next-generation cards. Be ready for tomorrow's requirements today with Talos™ II.

CAPI 2.0

Increase your I/O performance with CAPI 2.0 (IBM's Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface, version 2). Talos II supports CAPI 2.0 on all slots, so you can develop new accelerators and use existing next-generation peripherals, such as the Mellanox ConnectX-6 EN 200Gb/s Adapter Card.

DDR 4.0

What goes best with PCIe 4.0 bandwidth? Lots of DDR4 main memory. Shuffling your data in and out of the CPU isn't a problem with Talos™ II's plentiful DDR4 slots. Vital data integrity is ensured through registered DIMM interfaces and ECC support.

POWER9

Talos™ II is first to market with the brand-new, 14nm POWER9 processor, built on IBM OpenPOWER technology. POWER9's large caches and high SMT levels ensure your applications run smoothly, even with full system utilization. Hardware virtualization extensions keep your VMs running at near-native speeds.

Trusted Security

Talos™ II drives the state of the art of secure computing forward. Talos™ II gives you — and only you — full control of your machine's security. Rest assured knowing that only your authorized software and firmware are running via POWER9's secure boot features. Don't trust us? Look at the secure boot sources yourself — and modify them as you wish. That's the power of Talos™ II.

Simple Upgrades

Expand your Talos™ II system with easy access to upgrades and replacement parts! You don't need to call in a support technician to upgrade your machine for you; simply purchase the new parts online and install them at your convenience.

In an industry first, Talos™ II ships with fully open and auditable BMC firmware, based on the Open BMC project. Gone are the days when you had to carefully isolate the buggy, insecure BMC port from threats at the firewall level. With Talos™ II, the BMC is just another Linux system that can be maintained as part of normal workflow. Find a bug or vulnerability? No problem; just patch, recompile, and install.